C’mon every one of your direct competitors has offered this feature for years. It’s time to make it happen. Stop rearranging buttons and calling it an upgrade. This isn’t about appearance; it’s about functionality.

I like having my highlighter behind my writing as it’s easier to read. It would be helpful to have a toggle option for the highlighter to automatically go behind text after it is drawn. It’s a bit of a hassle to keep selecting just the highlighter stroke and go through the settings to manually send it to the back.

great

You are about to lose a customer, and I have already been advising all my colleagues not to use Goodnotes due to its lack of locking items and fake "layers". We use all of these, and you seem unwilling to listen. I am trying out your competitors, which offer these features, and are listening to their customers and have been l needs and desires for a great tablet app.

Refer to the "Layer" function in "Free Notes" ("Free Notes" is in the AppStore)

If you did this layer and locking feature, I will not leave for the competition. This would keep me. I have been asking for this for 4 years!

that is the feature that I was looking, if other app give, sadly I will leave goodnotes ;-;

This would be a game changer for me!

I have switched to Noteful as well, mainly because Goodnotes lacks this feature but also because it lacks the ability to change transparency of items in different layers so that I can achieve a nice layering effect on my journal and planner pages.

Being able to see what layer is where like in procreate or canva, and then move accordingly to where you want, and also being able to just lasso highlighter, just like there's a feature to just erase highlighter

I often revise my notes while adding temporary annotations or brainstorming ideas. It would be extremely helpful if there were a “note layer” feature, allowing users to write on a separate layer during review sessions. This way, such drafts or additional notes could be easily managed or deleted without affecting the original content.

i would make the layers applicable to anything, so it's not just comments. so if you are working on a sketch you can have line work on one layer, colored pencil or marker on another layer. that way you can erase and edit one part without messing up the other.

Yes! This would be super helpful for doing homework and taking notes.

Hi Goodnotes team & community,

I’m a longtime user and really love the flexibility of handwriting in the app. One feature I keep wishing for—especially when working on complex study notes or sketching diagrams—is the ability to create and toggle between layers, similar to how it's done in drawing apps like Procreate.

Specifically, I’d love to:

Create multiple handwriting layers within a single page

Hide/show layers to focus on different content (e.g. lecture notes vs. personal annotations)

Reorder or lock layers to prevent accidental edits

Is anything like this currently in development or being considered? Would love to hear if others would find this useful too!

Thanks,
—Jordan [geometry dash lite](https://geometrydash-lite.org/)

Please add this feature. A lot of people are leaving Goodnotes because it is frustrating to not be able to work without images or text being moved around. We need the ability to lock layers, text, and images.

Please add this feature. A lot of people are leaving Goodnotes because it is frustrating to not be able to work without images or text being moved around. We need the ability to lock layers, text, and images.

Please add this feature. A lot of people are leaving Goodnotes because it is frustrating to not be able to work without images or text being moved around. We need the ability to lock layers, text, and images. Simple planning takes hours because this is not possible.

Please add this feature. A lot of people are leaving good notes because it is so frustrating for new users. It takes a very long time to create a document or to even plan because you can’t lock stickers or layers or words.

Love GoodNotes 6 for journaling! Please add layering, lock/unlock, and group/ungroup. Layers to stack/reorder images and stickers, lock/unlock to stop accidental moves, and group/ungroup to move multiple elements together. These would make planning and creative work smoother. Thanks for considering!

Layers are critical in digital note taking. You’d get more subscribers if this feature was available.